Word: detestability
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...film opens halfway through the story: Paul Morel is in his early twenties. Within the first ten minutes one grasps all of the important relationships of the drama: the abandonment of Walter Morel by his wife and sons, who detest him because of his weakness and cruelty; Paul's desperate attachment to his mother, and his frustrated love for Miriam. The film then concentrates on the final failure of Miriam to break through Mrs. Morel's hold on her son, Paul's unsuccessful affair with Clara Dawes and his final liberation through his mother's death...
...Roger Vailland (179 pp.; Knopf; $3.50). Milan, an interior decorator, and his wife Roberte, come from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take her to bed and give...
Unhappily, lesser theologians forgot this sound advice. When Galileo peered through his telescope four centuries later and saw a heliocentric rather than a geocentric universe, the result was conflict between baffled theologians and fascinated scientists. The Roman Inquisition forced Galileo to "abjure, curse and detest the aforesaid errors," but science was not to be stopped that easily...
...told him to repeat after her the act of contrition: "0 my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee. I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell, but most of all because they offend thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love...
...Soulages grew up with the hunters and fishermen of his native town of Rodez in Southern France, at 14 decided to become a painter. His first loves were the Druid monuments in the region and the massive Romanesque architecture of the church at Conques. Says Soulages: "I detest the Renaissance." During his teens, Soulages delighted in sketching trees against the sky, boned up to pass the academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism was not for him, went home to work...